Thread: Fiero IFS instead of Mustang II

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Originally Posted by turbovauxhall

This is a pic I found on the net. Looks very promising. Basically Chevette suspension. Suposed to be a strong boxed crossmember as well. Coilovers are available as well. 88 is a little different, but supposedly a better "Lotus inspired" setup. Best of all it's CHEAP and common. Maybe it'll turn out to be the new Mustang II replacement. Who knows.

Hey,turbo..I would suggest you lok at the Opel or Chevette front end,as the Chevette,albeit,a little different to the English Chevettes,were the next model to replace the Viva,which is essentially all you have...The American Chevette may not be too much different,and the Opel Kadett is all in the family,too,so they would be where I would start looking first..If its a bit wider,give it a few inches extra in the fenders,,the rear end will have to be replaced anyway,so it will look ok with a bit of extra width..

Ok, I'm going to add my 2 bits worth here. You mention this is a project for your son (14) and its only going to be a lightweight car.
Had you considered using the stock vauxhall frontend and adding a decent set of aftermarket gas shocks (dampers) and look into a brake upgrade to suit - you may be able to achieve this by either a bearing change to allow using a larger hub/disc rotor or possibly use the vauxhall front hub and adapt on a 'Hat' type disc rotor (slip over style as fitted to a lot of Japanese vehicles '80s - '90s)
and then fabricate caliper mounts and add calipers to suit.
I suggest this option for a few reasons, the vauxhall front end is not a BAD design ( here in NZ there were many vauxhall vivas repowered with SBC using stock front ends) this would save you having to adapt in a complete front end swap, keep the track basically stock and hopefully keep the project on budget.

p.s. Vauxhall viva is essentially a firenza .